Oct. 28 (Portaltic/EP) –
Google is working on the group chat encryption of its Messages app, a feature that has been present in two-party conversations for two years.
encryption end to end It arrived in late 2020 in individual Messages conversations, at the same time that Google culminated the rollout of RCS rich messages.
In May, the company confirmed that encryption would come at the end of this year to the RCS groups of Messages, that in recent days they have begun to show in some cases the indication that they are undergoing tests.
Specifically, a user Reddit has shared several screenshots of a group chat with participants from Google and Samsung messaging applications. In this appeared a notification that the sent message was encrypted.
In 9to5Google indicate that this is an early test, which will bring the chat back to normal. its previous state, unencrypted. The open beta is still expected in the remainder of the year.
